In the United States it took many years to outlaw child labor. Connecticut passed a law in 1813 saying that working children must have some schooling. By 1899 a total of 28 states had passed laws regulating child labor.
Many efforts were made to pass a national child labor law. The U.S. Congress passed two laws, in 1918 and 1922, but the Supreme Court declared both unconstitutional. In 1924, Congress proposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, but the states did not ratify it. Then, in 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. It fixed minimum ages of 16 for work during school hours, 14 for certain jobs after school, and 18 for dangerous work.
Today all the states and the U.S. Government have laws regulating child labor. These laws have cured the worst evils of children's working in factories. But some kinds of work are not regulated. Children of migrant workers, for example, have no legal protection. Farmers may legally employ them outside of school hours. The children pick crops in the fields and move from place to place, so they get little schooling.
Child labor has been less of a problem in Canada because industry there did not develop until the 1900's. The Canadian provinces today have child labor laws similar to those in the United States. Most other countries have laws regulating child labor, too. But the laws are not always enforced, and child labor remains a problem.
in 1836, the Federal Government took the initiative to regulate the amount of hours and the type of work that a child could do.
In the USA, the 75-year old Fair LAbor Standards Act.
You must be 16 to get a job in California. For more child labor laws in California, visit www.stateandfederalposter.com They have comprehensive posters of child labor laws included in the labor law posters. Most states have laws that make employers post labor law posters of child labor laws.
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Yup :( sadly... US law prohibits child labor, and there is no evidence that Hershey violates that law where it applies.
12 year old children can't get a job in a store, because their not older enough. It would violate the Child Labor Law.
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I am most surely positive that it is against the law for a 11 year old child to work, anywhere, it is considered child labor . The minimum age is 12 years old.
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